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by zanderz 5y ago
So far I find it even worse that 1. You're forced to login with a live account, and 2. IE is banned, no more legacy activeX allowed. I may have to take it off my new laptop and go back to 10
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by zanderz 5y ago
I'm a cyclist of many years and am sympathetic to the plight of the small retail business, but over and over I've had even minor repairs botched by the minimum wage kids often doing the wrenching. I started buying tools and learni
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by zanderz 5y ago
The early versions of uTorrent were on the order of 80KB in size, it really was amazing. BitTorrent the company re-skinned it as BitTorrent the software and offered both versions for a few years, differing only by icons and colors, but fans
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by zanderz 5y ago
I worked at a company built on hardware products that was compelled to add some SaaS offerings because many large enterprise accounts have much simpler processes for subscriptions and AWS spend vs. capital expenditures. Sometimes a $500 mac
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by zanderz 5y ago
Related: 11 years ago or so, 3 Tesla executives died when their small plane crashed in East Palo Alto, where the shotspotter system recorded audio of the crash: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2010/02/19&#
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by zanderz 5y ago
Or Kronometer!
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by zanderz 5y ago
People have been saying this for more than 100 years - see the old popular mechanics articles predicting a 10 hour work week due to automation's production gains, quotes from Buckminster Fuller, references to Kurt Vonnegut's &quot
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by zanderz 5y ago
I worked at a company that was attempting to sell software to consumer electronics manufacturers as per the divx model - some of us remember when you couldn't buy a dvd player without that logo. But when streaming began to replace phys
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Our Kill It with Fire Moment(pahlkadot.medium.com)
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by zanderz 6y ago
On the subject of aircraft launched from a submarine, a rotary winged kite was developed in Germany during WWII for reconnaissance. Compact when disassembled, it could be deployed in minutes, tethered to the sub while it motored upwind, all
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by zanderz 6y ago
Drunk driving also used to just be something that happens, not taboo or enforced much, until a huge cultural and law enforcement change happened. It will take something similar to finally make it not ok for cars to run over cyclists.
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by zanderz 6y ago
They fly these out of Beale AFB and occasionally crash them in the surrounding area. In 1996 a civilian on the ground was killed: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-08-mn-32366-... Another U2 crash not far
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by zanderz 6y ago
Whaley McWhaleface
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by zanderz 6y ago
It can hit 100 these days in San Francisco itself in summer, but there is still this weird sanctimonious attitude about air conditioning. We asked some landscape designers about leaving room for a unit in the yard and more than once got a h
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by zanderz 6y ago
This reminds me of "The Darwin Economy" by Robert S. Frank ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12035503-the-darwin-econ... ) where he proposes a tax on super expensive luxury consumption precisely becaus
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by zanderz 6y ago
Cellulose films are supposed to be in this category but I've never understood how a consumer is supposed to distinguish it from plastic
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by zanderz 6y ago
I worked on a very popular free desktop product (BitTorrent/uTorrent) when a major revenue stream was the bundling of crapware in the install path, depending on people clicking the dialogs without reading them. I remember an executive
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by zanderz 6y ago
I recently learned that the word brutalism comes not from the imposing stature of the structures but from the French term for raw concrete: béton brut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut
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by zanderz 6y ago
The server was never open source and that will be a pretty big obstacle to the product living on beyond the company. That and maybe the Amazon S3 bill.
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by zanderz 7y ago
My German friend with a harley tells me that loud motorcycles are very strictly controlled in his part of Europe, especially Austria, which is popular to transit through on long tours to the Alps. He says Austrian police will confiscate a m
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by zanderz 7y ago
I, too, am old enough to remember Before the Internet https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/before-the-int...
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by zanderz 7y ago
https://sfconservancy.org I almost got my employer to donate to them and have a staff member give us a presentation. That fell apart, but it's a thing that can happen.
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by zanderz 7y ago
My retired dad lives alone in a 4 bedroom house walking distance from Apple he bought in 1981. It seems the region could benefit if such people had more incentive to downsize elsewhere, but prop 13 means even a much smaller place would have
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by zanderz 7y ago
Some years ago I worked on a very popular Windows desktop C++ program that had to stay small and backwards compatible, which meant only Win32 APIs and homemade libraries. Designers by the dozens would be hired, then get fed up with these li
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by zanderz 7y ago
Warte bis die Bullen weg sind!
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by zanderz 7y ago
$2000, yikes! Will one's credit card insurance benefit apply here like with a more classic rental to cover some of that?
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by zanderz 7y ago
MS still requires that drivers be signed with an EV cert https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/da... And it supposedly does help add some SmartScreen reputation, but that system is totally
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by zanderz 7y ago
A prime example of this was the Trek Y-Foil. It is surprising how much the entire bike industry is shaped by the arcane rules of a very conservative 119 year old European governing body.
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by zanderz 8y ago
I already hated TurboTax before that story broke because of the horrendous DRM that blocks legitimate use. I had kept DVDs for each of several years I filed, then once when I went back to re-install a previous year to open the file, it woul
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by zanderz 8y ago
have you heard that old pilot joke about twin engine aircraft? The second engine serves mainly to get you to the crash site faster.

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